George Lacey of Thorold Twp, Upper Canada

George Lacy or Lacey married Elizabeth Leigh ( sp. Lee in Canadian sources ) d/o Ichabod Leigh and Ann Stout 10 DEC 1796 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and soonafter relocated to Thorold Twp Upper Canada where he served in the 2nd Lincoln Militia. Reasons for the move aren't entirely clear since the rest of both families remained in New Jersey, but it has been suggested to me by a distant cousin that George was involved in the Whiskey Rebellion and as a result had to flee the country. A number of sources, including my g-grandmother, believed Laceys to be from Ireland but this tradition seems to have come from Leighs rather than Laceys ( Elizabeth3, Ichabod2, Joseph1 Leigh of Ireland ). George of Thorold was the fifth son of George Lacy Sr of Bethlehem NJ and his second wife Mary Benning. George Sr's parents remain a mystery at present but judging from where he lived ( Hunterdon County NJ ) and from the family he married into ( former Bucks County PA Quakers ) I believe he was probably a grandson of the Quaker William Lacey who immigrated to Bucks County PA in the 1690s from the Isle of Wright. William Lacey's 25-marker Y-DNA haplotype is on file if there are any Y-line descendants of George Sr or Jr who are interested in seeing if the haplotype is a match.